| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Dia pada beberapa mengambang ayam aneh! | She's on some weird chicken float. Come on! |
| Elektron mengambang di helium superfluida. | Electrons floating on superfluid helium. |
| "Sulit untuk bernafas, terasa seperti mengambang | "Hard to breathe, feels like floating |
| Tanpa itu, merusak sinar matahari menembus kolom air, dan yang menyebabkan kerusakan sel potensial untuk planktonik tersebut, bebas-mengambang organisme yang merupakan makanan pokok untuk spesies laut banyak. | Without it, the damaging rays of the sun penetrate the water column, and that causes potential cell damage to the planktonic, the free-floating organisms that are the basic food for many ocean species. |
| Itu mengambang didepanmu. Raih saja. | It's floating right in front of you. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | dryf,sweef | Arabic | طفا |
| Dutch | dobberen, drijven, glijden, zweven | English | float |
| Esperanto | flosi, flosigi | Estonian | floteerima, heljuma, hõljuma, ujutama |
| Faroese | flóta, floyta | Finnish | kellua, kelluttaa, leijailla, lilliä, lillua |
| French | flotter | German | flöhen, flottieren, gleiten, schweben |
| Hungarian | lebeg | Icelandic | fleyta, fljóta |
| Italian | flottare, fluitare, galleggiare | Japanese | 漂う, 浮かぶ, 浮かべる, 浮く, 浮遊 |
| Lithuanian | plūduriuoti | Macedonian | плута |
| Norwegian | flyte, sveve | Polish | rozpisywać, unosić |
| Portuguese | boiar, desencalhar, flutuar | Quechua | tuytuy |
| Romanian | pluti | Spanish | boyar, flotar |
| Swedish | simma | Thai | ลอย |
| Turkish | şamandıralamak | Vietnamese | bềnh bồng, bồng bềnh, lênh đênh, nổi, phao |